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WORLD AROUND US
Sacred Earth: A Journey to the World’s Holy Places with Martin Gray - P1/2
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From the majestic
Himalayan Mountains
to ancient Jerusalem
and Mecca, sacred places
around the world
have a deep and spiritual
meaning for many
of the world’s religions.
Some holy sites
are natural and
some are human-made;
some are famous,
some are less known;
some are grand and some
are of a humble nature,
yet they all share
the same sanctity that
has called forth reverence
throughout the ages.
Today on
The World Around Us,
we will journey
to some of the most
consecrated locations
around the world
with anthropologist
and photographer,
Martin Gray.
Mr. Gray
has traveled the world
to visit more than
1,000 holy places
in over 80 countries.
His photographic works
have been published
in National Geographic
and his own
Places of Peace and Power
website which
has received more than
25 million visitors.
In 2007, Sacred Earth
was published
as a photographic atlas
of holy places
around the globe and
will soon be available
in Japanese and Russian.
Mr. Gray has been
invited to numerous
conferences worldwide
to give his presentations
on hallowed sites.
Let us now meet Mr. Gray
and hear about
how his journey
to these blessed places
unfolded.
What's the first sacred site
you went to?
And how did you
start doing this
and really take this on
as your mission?
My father was
a military pilot
and we lived on
an air force base in
Holloman, New Mexico.
There was a town nearby
called Alamogordo.
Both of them
were near the greatest set
of white sand dunes
in the world
called White Sands.
It's white
because it's gypsum.
There's a
tremendous energy here
because it's the only place
on the planet
with selenite - gypsum
which has a very particular
energetic frequency that
this stone doesn't have.
So the different pure
mineral concentrations
do that.
I used to go out
on these white sands.
They're tremendously
beautiful and
the quality of the place
touched me
but I didn't know it.
Easter Island, or Rapa Nui,
is a Polynesian island
that is a special territory
of Chile.
It is well-known
for its 887 monolithic
stone statues called moai,
mostly carved
out of volcanic ash,
with the largest
weighing 82 tons.
The rich culture
and beliefs of the people
of Rapa Nui
are found through their
extensive petroglyphs,
which are pictures
carved into rock.
It was during a trip
to the island
that Mr. Martin Gray
gained further insight
through his meditation
to his life’s mission.
I went to Easter Island
and I knew a lot about it,
which is nice.
There's a volcano
called Rano Raraku,
and on the top of it,
I sat to meditate
and I wasn't expecting
another vision at that place.
I was just meditating.
Nice view out
over Easter Island.
It was beautiful.
I shut my eyes
and I'm just meditating,
just listening, being quiet.
And again,
I see one of these visions.
I see this thing and
it’s temple architecture.
I saw this five-story
wooden pagoda
in the forest.
It said, “Follow
the pilgrimage routes
of the ancient religions.”
And then I went up
to Machu Picchu
a week or so later,
and I'm meditating
in a certain place there.
I'm meditating there
again; and again
the picture came, the vision,
this wooden temple.
So Easter Island
and Machu Picchu were
very important for me
in the reception
of further visions.
Something communicated
to me.
I made the choice to do it.
Resting in the middle
of a tropical forest
2,430 meters
above sea level in Peru,
Macchu Picchu,
also referred to as
“The Lost City of the Incas,”
is another holy destination
for many people.
Built by the Incans
around 1462,
at the pinnacle
of their empire, it is
located on what is believed
to be sacred land with the
surrounding mountains.
It is attested to be
in alignment with major
astronomical events,
and regarded as
a historic sanctuary
for the ancient peoples.
There are
many sanctified places
around the world
which share
these unique qualities
with Macchu Picchu.
Mr. Gray explains
that there are up to
40 types of sacred sites
and 20 main causes for
the holy power of a place.
What constitutes
a sacred site?
I would say that there are
3 major categories
of influence.
One is geophysical.
It’s the landforms,
like around here it’s red
because of ferrous oxide
so it’s kind of magnetic.
There are
different landforms,
there are different
mineral concentrations,
there is different water,
there is underground,
there are a number of
geophysical anomalies.
The human beings
in antiquity
didn’t have machines
that measured it
but they felt it.
So there is the power
of place.
Then there is the effect of
celestial objects, the sun,
the moon, the stars,
and the planets.
When these different
celestial objects
are in a different
positional relationship
relative to the Earth
and the Sun, it causes
a sort of emanation
of energy of power
of spirit of something
at certain places.
Not all places
that are on a grid.
And then there is the
power of human intention.
And if you think,
like for example,
here we’re in Sedona,
there are absolutely
no vortexes in Sedona.
There is no evidence of
pre-existing native sanctity,
none whatsoever.
But because lots of
people come to the places,
they think there are.
There’s a sort of memory
the Earth has, so
the Earth becomes charged
at these places.
A field of energy,
of quality, of love,
of peace, of whatever
you want to call it,
develops in a field
and it gets more intense.
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tuned here to
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The World Around Us
will continue
after these brief messages
with more sacred
world destinations
with Mr. Martin Gray.
They're windows.
You look through them.
There's sort of a visual
homeopathic essence
of the site.
If you're looking at it,
it's looking back at you.
So when
I'm taking these pictures,
I'm saying to the spirit,
“Let this window
be of such a clarity
that the quality
of whatever it is,
the visual harmonics
comes through it
and touches people
in some way.”
So, it's a gift to people,
they’re prayers, and then
they're fun to look at.
When you get an
inoculation of something,
it stays in there
and it does something
for a long time.
So you find that the
sacred sites, the energy
almost flows through us.
It's flowing, we just come
and plug into the field.
It doesn't start
because we're there.
It's there, we walk into it.
And so
it penetrates our being on
a bunch of different levels.
We now continue
with today’s
The World Around Us
with Martin Gray,
an anthropologist and
photographer who has
traveled around the globe
documenting
over 1,000 sacred sites.
By studying patterns,
forms and relationships
in nature, it is believed
that humans can gain
an understanding
of mysteries of
the laws of the universe.
Geometry and
mathematical ratios observed
in the natural world
have been applied to
sacred architecture and art.
When you look at
medieval cathedrals or
pyramids in a number of
different places,
they’re built with certain,
what we call,
sacred geometry,
and it’s sort of
what a guitar is like.
There is
the sacred geometry in
the structure of the guitar
that gives you the
mathematical frequencies
of the notes.
Inside of it,
there is a certain sort of
sacred geometry,
the space.
Same thing at temples,
mosques, churches,
cathedrals, that there is
a quality of the space too.
Sacred geometry is
the geometry of nature.
I mean,
you got these rocks here,
and the rocks have got
atoms in there and
the electrons spinning
around the neutrons
and the protons –
there’s a certain
sacred geometry to it.
It’s just a particular type
of mathematics.
There is all these
different ratios
in the platonic solids,
and those determine,
sort of the way that
energy vibrates in space.
So that’s sacred geometry,
but then you get
like the Fibonacci series,
there’s pi,
and then there is phi.
And you get this wonderful
logarithmic spiral, and
you find it in flowers, you
find it in a nautilus shell,
you find it in a number of
different things.
It’s the geometry of nature.
It’s magnificent
and complex and shows
that nature’s smart,
very smart.
What draws people
to a certain place?
Why do people choose
to go to one sacred site
rather than another?
Mr. Gray explains that
an energy which draws us
to a certain holy place
can be called
“spiritual magnetism.”
What can people
experience by going to
these different sites?
Ultimately, it’s going
to be individual because
people are individuals.
But there’s
sort of a commonality
of experience that people
have at a certain place
or a certain type of place
which gives rise
to a commonality
of legends, of myths
around the world,
because they’re all
speaking about
the same quality.
There’s yin points,
yang points, feminine-
masculine energies,
negative-positive, negative
not in the sense of bad,
just polarity of energies.
What happens to people
at these places?
Some of them, people
have miraculous healings.
And there’s a bunch of
different types of sites
for different ailments.
Very interesting,
you’ll see this very strong
in Christianity,
for example,
different ailments
have different sites
to help cure them,
to have an effect upon them.
Then there are sites
that actually do awaken
and amplify creativity.
The Greeks talked about
oracular sites,
Oracle at Delphi in Greece.
There are places,
for some unknown reason,
human beings go there,
and there is a tendency
for some of them
somehow see visions
of what they know
as their future.
In ancient civilizations,
an oracle was believed
to be a person or conduit
of extraordinary wisdom,
lending her or himself
to offer counsel
and prophesies.
Oracles were considered
as spiritual authorities.
Certain sites were known
for their dispensing
of knowledge
and were thereby known
as oracles as well.
Aside from the Oracle
at Delphi in Greece,
other oracles include
the I Ching
or “Book of Changes”
in China,
Per-Wadjet temple
in Egypt, Akashwani
or “Voice from the Sky”
in India, oracle priests
of Mesoamerica,
Agbala and Chukwu oracle
of Nigeria,
Runes of Scandinavia, and
Nechung Oracle of Tibet.
There are a lot of sites
around the planet
where people
have spoken about,
the world of spirits
being revealed to them,
having a Shamanic
experience where
they are sort of
channeling something.
So Delphi is one.
With the focus of pilgrims
on God and
spiritual aspirations,
holy places truly offer
a divine and
special atmosphere
that is a blessed
opportunity for everyone
to experience.
Please tune in next Sunday
on Supreme Master
Television for
The World Around Us
with part 2 of our show,
“Sacred Earth:
A Journey to
the World’s Holy Places
with Martin Gray.”
Up next is
Words of Wisdom,
after Noteworthy News.
May your journeys
lead you to lands
of everlasting peace
and happiness.
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